Chapter 21: Eclipse Organization (III)
"Let the games begin!!!"
Hearing the sudden shout, Nova's eyes swept around the room, to find another masked figure.
He wore an all-white suit, with a white colored mask with a happy expression.
His suit was tight, so a muscular and toned body was visible, giving Nova confirmation that he was male, in addition to his husky, gravelly voice earlier.
I do not go far from the gentleman in white, a group of characters in black tight-fitting suits were lined up, about 12 people, making there were three rows, each with four people.
There were people with different characteristics and features, making each one unique by itself.
They also focused their attention briefly on Nova, who by his unique ranks had drawn attention.
"Excuse me, young Leiden, I must go now, I wish you strong in the challenges of recruitment," with a slight professional smile, Cia, who stood next to Nova, quickly took her leave.
Bowing slightly, she gave a sort of nod, before leaving.
Nova just stared at his, before looking away. Cia was certainly beautiful, but Nova wasn't interested and not attracted to having Cyborg as a mate, that was out of character, and besides he didn't want every night to have to see her eyes popping out of their sockets.
'But if she wants to be mates with me, I'm never going to refuse...', Nova thought, before stepping forward to fully join in the recruitment.
There were only two people who appeared to be the supervisors: the one who spoke earlier in a black suit and mask and the one who shouted or announced the start of the recruitment, in a white suit and mask.
Both of them were standing firm, with their chests slightly forward, it was obvious that they were very confident.
In front of them, was the small group of people, which Nova walked towards them with total naturalness.
As the line was perfectly ordered, with three rows of four people each, Nova paused for a moment which way to go, until he finally shrugged his shoulders, standing behind a line he chose by chance.
None of the people stopped them, only the odd one or two looked at him, but Nova didn't want to make eye contact now, otherwise, he'd be tempted to use Copy, something he didn't want to do.
'Most of the people here anyway will be leaving soon, I should copy the best of the best,' Nova decided mentally, opting to stay without doing or saying anything.
But if anything he felt weird or uncomfortable that the person had a black suit, currently, rather, a black uniform without any decoration, it was just a purely black uniform.
Instead, he had the opposite, a very elegant white suit with some decorations, the contrast was tremendous.
Thinking about this, Nova didn't notice that someone was already behind him, tapping his shoulder a couple of times with his finger.
Caught off guard, Nova turned around when he saw the guy, to realize that it was the same masked man who greeted him earlier, but unlike before, he was wearing some sort of navy blue armband.
Nova didn't dare to make a defensive move or anything like that, as he knew that possibly the man who was now in front of him was extremely strong, so Dolo listened to what he said carefully.
"This here is a bracelet, you must put it on your hand, it will automatically put you in a black uniform like everyone else," said the black-masked man handing him the bracelet in his hand.
Nova nodded with gratitude, but also with loss. The skills Nova wants to steal should be a bit earlier or in the last challenge itself, currently, they would be of almost no use to him, as the difficulty of the first challenge he was sure to overcome.
'If only I didn't have that time limit...', Nova lamented.
Still, he carefully removed the bracelet from his hand and put it around his wrist. Instantly, a black colored mass came out of the bracelet.
It was as if it was a black mass that wrapped around Nova before hugging him, fitting snugly around him.
He was the only slightly overweight person in the current room, so it looked a bit funny, but still, no one laughed.
The black-masked man disappeared again, they appeared next to practically his counterpart, the white-masked man.
Everyone was astonished by this speed, all having the same thought.
'What was expected of an Eclipse High Command,' admiration shone in their eyes, growing their motivation more.
"Well, as you may know, the daily game for the recruiting of members has begun," he raised his voice, the white-masked one for all to hear.
Instantly, each of the people stopped thinking and even their eyes no longer shone with admiration, but with determination.
Nova, on the other hand, was watching this with some interest.
With the white-masked man's gaze roaming over everyone in the room, he continued.
"We have more than two weeks that we haven't found a recruit, at least a decent one, so I hope you guys will break, this bad streak", after saying that, every single person in the room had more confidence.
Although it may be because the Eclipse challenge was too strong, it is also possible that they are just incompetent people, they decided to believe that it was the second option so as not to lower their already growing motivation.
"The Eclipse Challenge or Games proceeds in three parts, Skills, Intelligence, and finally, the duel," he continued after a brief pause.
"The Skills game is the first one, you are going to cast the best Skills you have, each in a separate room with an extremely tough test dummy, also that dummy can attack with brutal attacks, so you can test your defensive skills if you have other skills besides defensive and offensive, you will have to mention it immediately when you leave the room you will be assigned."
With the white-masked man's detailed explanation, everyone nodded with compression, finding the test they were about to perform perfectly fine.
The two masked men looked at each other, also nodding, the two said in unison, "Follow us."
They turned and began walking towards a wall.
The other people in line followed as well, finding nothing unusual, after all each of them had seen how Cia was scanned and how an elevator appeared out of nowhere.
Meanwhile, Nova had a serene look on his face, he didn't want to stress himself out before the challenges, so he thought hard about it.
Arriving in front of a black wall, the black-masked man put his hand on what seemed to be a random spot, until a blue light appeared around his hand, enveloping it.
No one showed even a reaction, until the wall, in front of them, parted, thus revealing some sort of completely dark room.
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